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What is causing bay window lintel cracking?
Anonymous user 16 March 2024 - 2.51 PM
I need advice on a bay window with a ridged roof. The upstairs middle lintel is cracking horizontally and vertically. The house was built in 1929. There isn't real evidence of wall tie erosion, although this could be a possibility. There is further cracking of seals coming away vertically from the window panes. Not sure who to ask for advice - surveyor, lintel/wall tie specialist?
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Jason's carpentry & joinery
If it's a concrete lintel it could be the rebar in the concrete rusting and expanding forcing the concrete apart! You really need a structural engineer to look at it!😬
Answered12 June 2023
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E.J.NICHOLSON
it could also be that the bearing / overhang is not suffice
Answered17 June 2023
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Leo maintenance
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Definitely, we need the engineer to have a look and take it from there
Answered8 July 2023
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